Thread: remember today

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i was on the beach in mykonos greece...the whole beach came to the bar and we watched the second plane hit...we were all gutted...left greece the next day back to saudi arabia...what a bummer...

I was sitting on the couch, watching TV while my then-Girlfriend was getting ready to go to work. I was watching the Today Show and they announced that there was a plane crash and they cut away to a film crew on the scene. I told my GF to come look at what was going on. Like everyone else we thought it was some errant pilot who screwed up and hit the building.

A little while later, as my GF was walking out to her car to leave for work I watched the second plane crash into the other tower, and the confusion really set in. I remember running to the railing and yelling down to her about what had happened, she said "Oh my God, what is going on???????"

I started work at about 11 that day, and by the time I got to work there was a fog over every person there and me too. My emotions were a combination of confusion, anger, fear, and patriotism. By now the whole ugly scene was unfolding, including the other plane, and I remember saying "I hope we drop the big one on whoever did this and turn their country into a parking lot." We went to the electronics department and were all glued to a TV the whole day, and unable to fully comprehend what was happening.

Thanks for reminding me that today was 9/11, I had forgotten. I'll think back to that day often today and say a little prayer for the ones who lost their lives and their families and friends. If anything good came out of that it was that for a little while we all felt closer to our fellow Americans and were a little kinder to one another.

Don